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Hardcover, bluish green cloth lettered in black, in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 315pp., Stated first edition, no other printings listed. Translated by Norbert Guterman. Index of native terms by Mario Bick. Preface by Valetta Malinowska. Introduction by Raymond Firth. Illustrtaed with 4 maps in text and map endpapers. A revealing record of the personal ordeals and professional discoveries of the well-known anthropologist during his early, crucial years in the primitive world of New Guinea. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy in complete, dust-jacket. Mild age toning to jacket at rear panel. A very good copy in a very good dust-jacket of a scarce title.